Module 1: Culminating Project

Module 1: Overview

Students are to combine their skills to create a working web site for a local school-based, non-profit or commercial organization. Either individually or as a group, they will follow the same steps and stages as for the mock web site project in Unit 5, but this time realizing that the final product is intended to be published on the internet.

Module 1: List of lessons:

• Lesson 1: Instructor introduced segment of the course.
• Description: This "real-world" project is the culmination of all the skills that the students have acquired over the course of the semester.
• Learner Outcome: This is the capstone project of the course and combines all outcomes of the previous units.
• Activities:
  • Instructor should begin by having students link to the lesson document for the Culminating Project.
  • Explain the perameters and timeline involved.
  • Emphasize common pitfalls such as lack of client contact, insufficient time organization, etc.
  • Emphasize that they should treat every aspect of this part of the course as if they were working for a paying client.
• Suggested Assessment: The site rollout can be done with the instructor and group alone, or with the entire class depending on many factors. It is suggested that you use the class web site evaluation rubric developed in Unit 1, but you may choose to use a mixture of self evaluation, peer evaluation and instructor evaluation.